RE: radioactivity from fossil fuel power stations

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

Dr. Cohen,

And what are the ranges associated with these death values?  Or are they

absolute values?



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



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-----Original Message-----

From: BERNARD L COHEN [mailto:blc+@PITT.EDU]

Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:17 AM

To: Susan Gawarecki

Cc: RADSAFE

Subject: Re: radioactivity from fossil fuel power stations



. . .

	--The whole discussion was based on radiation doses. If we

consider total deaths, coal burning is dominated by air pollution which is

generally estimated to cause at least 10,000 deaths per year in U.S.

Annual U.S. deaths from 100 nuclear power plants are: reactor accidents

(treated probabilistically) - 2; routine emissions - 2; all others - less

than 2; on a per GWe-year basis, these numbers should be divided by 100.

	For coal burning, a treatment similar to the one I use for long

term deaths from radiation doses gives about 30 deaths per GWe-year from

chemical carcinogens released in coal burning. 

. . .

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